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Hi, I’m Daedren. You might remember me from other articles such as “The effectiveness of raiding in only a tubesock” and “Erling Ellingson: Age of Conan Dev by day, Transvestite Cyborg by night?”. It’s me, alright, and I’m here, playing the role of the unbearer of bad news. I’m not bearing it, because it’s not […]

Last December I posted an article about the top 5 most memorable events in MMORPG history which received a huge response from the MMO community.  Today I decided it revisit this post and list a few more of the top events in MMORPG history.  These are in no particular order:
Serenity Now Bombs a Funeral - […]

Regular readers will know that I don’t think too highly of Funcom’s truly awful Age of Conan. Part of the pain/hate/call it what you like, is that I wanted the game to do extremely well and, yes, I believed Funcom when it said that it would take the lessons learned from Anarchy Online and apply […]

There’s a young guy over on the BioWare forums who has lately taken a real shine to disagreeing with absolutely everything I say when I’m posting over there. It’s kind of charming (albeit in a slightly annoying way), to the degree that I’m sure he’d happily argue that black was white, up was down, and […]

Hi, I’m Daniel. You might remember me from such other MMO articles like “It was great except for the Elves with 5 o’clock shadows” and “Tits and Fatalities aside, Age of Conan sucks flaccid donkey genitals”. I’m new here; and bringing you a highly opinionated, wordy rant on the latest of MMO trends: the term […]

So WoW appears to be getting a new mount… a motorcycle no less… called “The Hog”. You can see some pictures of it here.
Internet commentators, like Steve Danuser, are already up in arms about The Hog appearing in beta testing:
The helicopter flying mount made by engineers was pushing it for me. Once Azeroth has the […]

It seems that the walls of World of Warcraft are impenetrable as yet another hyped MMO is broken against them, I’m of course speaking of Age of Conan.  Age of Conan was probably the most hyped MMO in the last few years and while the hype helped AoC to break sales records, it didn’t last […]

A little while ago, we had Mike announce that he was done with Age of Conan. I wrote a counterpoint opinion piece saying that I was staying in the game for the time being, although qualified it that unless the game picked up, I’d drop it within another two to three billing cycles. Essentially, I […]

Beam me up Scotty!  Yesterday at PennyArcade they had a comic that illustrated the possible problem that might arise in the upcoming Star Trek MMO with traveling.  As with any MMO, developers must decide how easy traveling will be in the game.  How early should the player get a mount or vehicle.  Will there be […]

Tonight, SOE demoed its new Free Realms game at the FanFaire. You can get a quick sense of the game via its brief Wikipedia entry. Call me a silly old sentimental gamer who should know better, but it looks quite amazing and strikes me that a lot of people, adult gamers included, could make great […]